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Date:      Fri, 16 Jan 2015 08:31:25 -0600
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Mount NTFS from base system?
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:08 AM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net>
wrote:

> from Polytropon and my previous post:
>
> > > I had Rod Smith's gdisk on it, and subversion, see rsync was
> > > not there.
>
> > You would need to install rsync from ports.
>
> I did, on later installations, both FreeBSD and NetBSD.
>
> > > I also have FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE i386 on another USB 2.0 stick,
> > > updating that was deterred by the fact that "make installworld"
> > > took 7 to 8 hours.
>
> > Yes, R/W operations on a USB stick tend to be slower
> > than on directly attached hard disks. :-)
>
> Maybe it was a particular allergy of FreeBSD to the particular model of
> USB stick?
>

Speeds vary greatly across different different sticks.  I have one
particularly slow one which would likely take about the same amount of time
to complete.  This is a hardware trait not an OS one.  A recent $11 usb3
stick from amazon plugged into usb2 completes in much faster time.

-- 
Adam



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